Ah, how short a time it is that we are here! Why then not set our hearts at rest, ceasing to trouble whether we remain or go? What boots it to wear out the soul with anxious thoughts? Let me stroll through the bright hours as they pass in my garden among my flowers.
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FOOTNOTES:
[43] The quotations from the Roman de la Rose are taken from Mr. F. S. Ellis’s translation, published by Messrs. J. M. Dent & Co. in the “Temple Classics.”
[44] J. G. Frazer, Adonis, Attis, Osiris, 1906.
[45] King’s Quair, verse 31 seq.